, it is the headline, even as obama care was the headline of the first min strags. you know, bill sapphire once said, never join a pile-on. but at this point, that pile-on isn't getting smaller it's just growing. there's something to say about obama care, but from the moment the site debuted, straight to the point american people started learning how obama care was changing their lives and can selling their coverage and changing it, it has been a disaster. i have never seen a story quite like this. >> and the turnaround has been astounding. think of where we were a few weeks ago. the republicans were blamed for a government shutdown that went on and on. are the republicans doomed to, you know, extinction? poll numbers as low as we have ever seen. now, that's over. the focus is on the president. >> i pressed dan pfeiffer on this a little bit. you're at the white house every single day, behind the scenes, how do they explain how they missed this? >> you know, they don't have a good explanation behind the scenes, either, and george, we sat through presentations before